Cambodian News

The prime minister has ordered telecom companies to reopen cross-network communication, in a bid to ensure fair competition in the communications industry.
In an Oct. 21 letter, Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered all telecom companies to stop the practice of barring connections from one company to another or risk losing their licenses.
The denial of cross-network service [...]

Advertisements for every mobile phone network in Cambodia can be seen in newspapers, on television, on the street and in supermarkets. Companies are reducing prices, giving away air time and, in some cases, giving away phones.
Nine companies in fact are fighting for customers in the most competitive environment in a decade.
Gary Foo, chief of marketing [...]

Cambodia has been slow in adopting the IT revolution, which has transformed much of East Asia. But a radical scheme is underway to give technical and skilled jobs to the country’s most disadvantaged and break the poverty cycle. Digital Divide Data (DDD) is a nongovernmental organization operating in Phnom Phenh.
It provides career choices beyond traditional [...]

The slogan for angkorone.com, a recently launched Web site, makes it networking goals known: “Khmers, unite, inspire, share.”
Angkor One, which has become highly popular in a short time, uses networking tools similar to Facebook, allowing users to communicate with friends and family from across the globe. But it also does something that Facebook does not: [...]

PHNOM PENH, July 14 (Xinhua) — Distributors here have said that the number of Chinese-sourced mobile phones being sold in Cambodia each month is climbing rapidly, local newspaper the PhnomPenh Post reported on Tuesday.
Not only are they cheaper than leading brands, but some have features including the ability to use two SIM [...]

SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Reuters) – Malaysian telecom firm Axiata (AXIA.KL) has expressed interest in buying the Sri Lankan and Cambodian assets of Luxembourg-based telecom operator Millicom (MICC.O) (MICsdb.ST) worth at least $500 million, sources with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters.
Axiata, which raised $1.47 billion from shareholders in April to reduce debt and [...]

As soon as you hear the beeping alert, money has been transferred to your account. That’s because Wing, the first instant transaction service in Cambodia, is up and running.
Wing started in November 2008 and now has around 16,000 customers, mostly students and garment factory workers. The service has been limited because only one moble phone [...]

PHNOM PENH, May 21 (Reuters) – VimpelCom (VIP.N), Russia’s number two mobile phone operator, said it would invest $200 million in the Cambodian telecoms sector after taking a 90 percent stake in local mobile company Sotelco Ltd last year.
Anna Aybasheva, a spokeswoman for VimpelCom in Phnom Penh, said that this investment over three years included [...]

PHNOM PENH, May 6 (Reuters) – Cambodia’s telecommunications minister called on Wednesday for more foreign firms to invest in the country’s mobile phone sector to satisfy demand that has been growing 40 percent a year in terms of the number of users.
“We want more foreign firms because we want a better service, cheaper, and higher [...]

Mid-February, the news was broken and circulated by most economic media in France:  Alcatel-Lucent was chosen by Chuan Wei to set up a national WiMAX Rev-e network in Cambodia. The new technology, somehow the big sister of WiMAX Rev-d already operational in Cambodia and used by many Internet Service Providers (ISPs), would not just allow [...]